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A supplementary M240E1 7.62mm machine gun can be pintle-mounted at the commander's station in the turret. The LAV-25 is fully amphibious with a maximum of three minutes preparation.
The Piranha’s turret is equipped with a M242 Bushmaster autocannon, ... The LAV-25 can ride from an amphibious ship at sea to shore via U.S. Navy LCAC hovercraft and Landing Craft Utility ...
The LAV-25, the U.S. Marine Corps’ main armored reconnaissance vehicle, has its origins in an effort to develop a new, highly mobile strike force for the Middle East. Fast, lightly armored and ...
and the new M1047 LAV. Based on the GM Canada Light Armored Vehicle, itself based on the Swiss Mowag Piranha, the M1047 was an eight-by-eight wheeled armored vehicle with a turret armed with a 25 ...
The Marine Corps LAV-25 is an eight-wheeled, light armor vehicle that projects power through its turret-mounted 25mm M242 Bushmaster chain gun. Cool.
August 12, 2011: The U.S. Marine Corps recently brought another 33 LAV-25A2 wheeled armored vehicles, for $1.3 million each. This may be the last such purchase, as the marines are working on an LAV-25 ...
The LAV 25 "possesses a potent combination of firepower, high mobility, communications and protection in an expeditionary platform," according to the US Marines.It was used in the 1989 invasion of ...
The Marine Corps may seek additional upgrades to its family of LAV-25 light armored vehicles beyond those already scheduled to receive funding, the program manager said April 28. The possible new ...
The LAV-25 is an eight-wheeled armored reconnaissance and personnel carrier armed with a Bushmaster 25mm chaingun and two machine guns. It has a crew of three and can carry up to six Marines with ...
The main armament of the LAV III is a 25-mm M242 Bushmaster automatic cannon mounted in a two-man turret, as well as a twin 7.62-mm machine gun and an additional machine gun on the roof.